"San Jose State Normal School was a Romanesque-style, wooden building that included administrative offices, classrooms, library, museum, lecture hall, and recital hall. Built at a cost of $285,000, it was considered one of the most beautiful...

Caption on back of photograph: 'San Jose State Normal School-destroyed by fire in 1880; erected in 1870.'
"San Jose State Normal School was a Romanesque-style, wooden building that included administrative offices, classrooms, library, museum,...

Exterior view of several public buildings including the Santa Clara Municipal Works. These buildings stood where the Santa Clara County tower of steel, which supplied the county's water supply, was before the 1906 earthquake.